On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jens Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2009/2/7 Jean-Philippe Bernardy <[email protected]>:
>> Yeah, gtk is effectively not supported.
>
> Ok, then better to state so openly somewhere, say in README?  I have
> wasted a lot of time testing it... :)

Sorry about the inconvenience. :/ The idea of course would be that you document
your experience to that somebody can pickup where you left...

> Probably same for pango.

Pango is "experimental" but we really hope to fix it. It's the
official future for Yi :)

>>> * config
>>> - really wish there was runtime loading of config and customization -
>>> HConf is not really attractive IMHO
>>
>> Doesn't "reload" give you satisfaction?
>
> I dunno - it doesn't feel right - I would like to be able to config
> what is loaded at runtime and load modules by hand.
>
>  M-x load MyLib.hs
>
> or what is the vision here?

The issue is that this breaks type safety. To put it in a slogan: it
does not really fit the "haskell spirit".

>>> and it does not play well with
>>> distro packaging
>>
>> What do you mean?
>
> Not sure if I am up to date with the status quo, but running from
> ~/.yi/yi-i386-linux feels like a hack to me.
>
> If a Linux distro packages yi, one would expect it to run /usr/bin/yi
> and not some user binary instead.
> I think I/we will face this problem soon since there are places to
> include xmonad in fedora.
> (I wonder if Debian does anything for it.)
>
> Does the new ghc library in ghc offer any help with this now that
> hsplugins is old?

I've had too much bad experience with GHC API so that I don't think
I'll look into it any
time soon. There was one version of yi (0.3 ?) that was configured
using it, but it
was a nightmare to build and distribute. (In addition of the type-safety issue).

>> I have implemented all features I need... If people wish to improve I'd
>> be glad to help, but I have little motivation to implement stuff I don't 
>> need.
>
> I think a heavy Emacs user is needed in the core team! ;)

fwiw I never used vi(m) :)
-- JP

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